The widely popular Minecraft, developed by Mojang sold more than seven million units of its PC version since its release in November 18, 2011.
While the Xbox 360 version of this sandbox-building game is selling like hot cakes, 17,000 units a day that generates revenue of about $340,000 approximately each day.
Minecraft: Pocket Edition for Android had 5,000,000 downloads. With all the versions combined, this game sold over 10 million units to date.
According to Reuters, Peter Moore of EA said the sale of digital products forms the majority of company's revenue.
"There will come a point, whether it is two or three years from now, when we say 'We are doing more in digital media now than we are in physical media' and it's clearly not far away," he said.
In the 2Q 2012, digital game sales pegged 17 percent higher than compared to the same last year, reported TG Daily.
"In the second quarter of this year, sales of content in a digital format have grown 17 percent over 2Q 2011. While this growth is in stark contrast to the declines in new physical software and hardware sales, the size of digital sales is not quite large enough to offset these declines, leading to an overall drop in consumer spending in 2Q by 16 percent," said Anita Frazier, analyst, NPD group.
Valve recently announced that it will be selling mainstream apps apart from its usual entertainment oriented titles on its popular platform, Steam. Steam is a very popular platform which gives features like, easy to install, auto update, and saving files into the cloud so that they are accessible across the devices. It became a huge success with 40 million games so far have used Steam to download Valve and other third-party games.
